Proverbs 18 10 The name of the LORD
Proverbs 18: 10 The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run into it and are safe. “safe” = “inaccessibly high”
Proverbs 18: 11 The wealth of the rich Is their fortified city; They imagine it a wall too high to scale.
Dwelling Place 2 Chronicles 7 1 When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. 2 The priests were unable to enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled it.
11 When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace…
12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, 14 and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time. ”
“may be”: Hebrew “hayah”: To fall out, come to pass, come into existence or dwell; to become, be
2 Corinthians 3: 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. ”You become like what you Behold. ” MADE IN HIS IMAGE, made to MIRROR HIM!
Exodus 6: 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty (El Shaddai), but by my name the LORD (YHWH) I did not make myself fully known to them. NAMES are not just IDENTIFIERS, they are IDENTITIES! But, also, we must realize that NAMES are more than just functional titles in God’s economy: They represent ESSENCE, PRESENCE AND POTENTIAL!
Title vs. Personal Name: Before God revealed Himself personally to Moses as “YHWH”, He was only known functionally in Title as “El”. “YHWH”: “I Am that I Am”; “I will become what I will become” “El”: “strong, mighty, prominent” Titles of God: • El Shaddai • Elohim
“EL” God (“mighty, strong, prominent, supreme”) used 250 times in the OT • Impersonal title • The Hebrew’s “Allah” (different in character, same in title) • Role & Relationship revealed in names: • “Bethel”: house of God • “Elijah”: judgment of God • “Elisha”: salvation of God • “Eleazar”: help of God
EL SHADDAI: God Almighty or “God All Sufficient. ” 48 times in the OT, 31 times in Job alone. First used in Gen. 17: 1 with Abram “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, ‘I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless. ’”
Elohim God (a plural noun, more than two, used with singular verbs) Elohim occurs 2, 570 times in the OT, 32 times in Gen. 1 alone God as Creator, Preserver, Transcendent, Mighty and Strong. • God as 3 persons: the Trinity • Creation: • “In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. ” • “And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. ” • “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. ” John 1
Elohim “Heavenly Council” NOT polytheism! One God in 3 persons ruling among the “sons of God” Psalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph. “God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods” Deuteronomy 10: 17 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more. For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing. …
Heavenly Council Satan’s Appearance & Accusation of Job 1: 6, 7 One day the sons of God (bene Elohim) came to present themselves before the LORD (YHWH), and Satan (the adversary) also came with them. 7“Where have you come from? ” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth, ” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it. ”
Judgment of Ahab II CHRONICLES 18: 18 -22 Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right hand His left. 19 And the LORD said, 'Who will persuade Ahab king of Israel to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead? ' So one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner. 20 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, and said, 'I will persuade him. ' The LORD said to him, 'In what way? ' 21 "So he said, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. ' And the Lord said, 'You shall persuade him and also prevail; go out and do so. ' 22 Therefore look! The LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets of yours, and the LORD has declared disaster against you. "
Song of Moses DEUTERONOMY 32: 7 -9 (RSV) Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you. When the Most High (Eleon: Supreme) gave to the nations their inheritance (Genesis 10), when He separated the sons of men, He fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the SONS OF GOD (bene Israel: sons of the Princes of God). For the LORD's portion is His people, Jacob His allotted heritage.
Paul’s “Worldview” Acts 17 24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. 25 Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. 26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. 28 ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being. ’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring. ’
Paul’s “Worldview” Ephesians 1: 19 -23 These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Paul’s “Worldview” Ephesians 3: 8 -12 “this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.
Paul’s “Worldview” Ephesians 6: 10 -12 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Paul’s “Worldview” 1 Corinthians 6: 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more things of this life!
Paul’s “Worldview” Colossians 1: 15 -20 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
• The Sovereign Rules Relationally • Roles & Responsibilities are integral to relating to the Most High God • “Ruling Together” is the original and ultimate Intention of the Father • Your Life Has PURPOSE! • Sovereignty is not Unilateral • Authority can be absolute without being resolute. • Appeal and Dialogue are essential elements of executing the Divine Will. • Your Prayers have POWER!
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